Way to go! I was about to suggest separate thread for this, seems like it has potential for a usable frontend (actually already is! ) Everything works so far on this one, I see you added cd/dvd drive wizard too, nice one._________________Dpup 487 | Puppy Gallery | My photo gallery | mtPaint works

Just to clarify for those that care, the HTML5 specification doesn't say what codec to use. Theora is supported by Chrome, Mozilla, and Opera. The h.264 codec is supported by Chrome, Safari, and upcoming versions of IE. Youtube is encoding video in h.264, which is annoying for those of us that don't like Flash but use Firefox or Opera.

abushcrafter wrote:

I have also found that Theora is superior than other video formats eg h264 in terms of quality and size!

Apple and Google (by Google, I mean their child company Youtube) say the same thing if you swap the positions of Theora and h.264. The Theora people agree with you. Mozilla and Opera don't care, they just want an open codec instead of proprietary. That is pretty much the entire HTML5 video debate in a nutshell.

Back to the thread topic:
VLC without all those nasty dependencies? Yes, please! As soon as I'm back on my Puppy box I'll be giving it a try._________________Be brave that God may help thee, speak the truth even if it leads to death, and safeguard the helpless. - A knight's oath

Thanks for the info on theora.. Also, for the 2 or 3 people who downloaded 1.3 so far:
If it's crashing when you choose a subtitle file, you need to re-download 1.3 (fixed)!_________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search